Full of adventures, smiles & a few tears, give this one to all the preteens in your life (but read it yourself first). Finished this in a hammock by the riverside in Vietnam, I think Annie & California would both approve!

This play is so important.

Theatre, Mr. Kingsley had written in tall, slashing letters of chalk on the board. “That‘s the way it is spelled” he had said. “If you ever spell this with er at the end, you will fail the assignment.”

“Daughters are enigmatic minefields of classified information.”

The premise had such promise, but I found the execution underwhelming. The most haunting part of the apocalypse was the protagonist‘s struggle to end her pregnancy.

Spooky and otherworldly. Took a couple of chapters to warm up to it, and then I couldn‘t put it down. Perfect hammock by a river read. I loved the water imagery & that the action took place in a lonely house near the ocean.